I love this… The Department of Foreign Afairs and Trade released a travel advisory a few days back. So, which part of the world was it for? Iraq with an Australian hostage taken? Indonesia with significant arrests for drugs? Africa with an outbreak of Haemoragic Fever? NO. It was none of these.

The decided that Perth was a dangerous place to visit. The email included the statement “This is a message to let you know that Perth is dangerous at this time of year,” and was sent to about 8000 subscribers. And I was thinking of going over there to visit a couple of clients. Time to cancel the travel plans.

Perth city council actually agreed with the warning – “The weather is a bit dodgy,” their spokesman noted. The SMH has their version of the story here

I love this – someone has built themself a Harpsicord out of Lego. And in the rackmount department there is This site that contains information on how to build a cheap rackmount PC. Not quite server grade but it is not that bad. Really.